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Hitting the campaign trail

Liberty Belle

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Bruce Whalen is running on the Republican ticket against the Democratic incumbent, Stephanie Herseth, for the US House of Representatives. This was taken at a Republican Lincoln Day Dinner a couple weeks ago. I was very impressed by him and if you know anything at all about South Dakota politics, the fact that an Indian would run as a conservative Republican is absolutely amazing.

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The young fellow on the other side of Bruce is one of my biggest supporters, in more ways than one!! That’s me in the red jacket and both Bruce and I are taller than average, which gives you an idea what a big guy John is.
 

Tap

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Have at 'em Liberty Belle. :!:

I only wish Mr. Whalen would have better luck than I am sure he is going to have. Hard to beat a perky Democrat masked as a moderate.
 

Jinglebob

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Tap said:
Have at 'em Liberty Belle. :!:

I only wish Mr. Whalen would have better luck than I am sure he is going to have. Hard to beat a perky Democrat masked as a moderate.

yup. give em hell liberty. :D
 

Liberty Belle

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It's especially hard for an Indian to run as anything but a Democrat. Bigwigs in the Democrat party have said that Herseth doesn't have to worry about Whalen because "he's nothing but a reservation Indian"!! How's that for racism from the "kinder, gentler" party, home of the Rainbow Coalition?

They're right about him not being much of a threat to Herseth's base, even on the rez. I heard that when he first supported John Thune, he lost his race for a seat on the tribal council, where he was considered a shoo-in, because he backed the Republican Party.
 
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